Handle & Co.
Klinke & Co. was a German company based in Berlin . It also operated under the contemporary name industrial photographers . These were photographic workshops with illustration and postcard publishing.
history
The company Klinke & Co. was entered in the Berlin commercial register in 1927. The owner was Eduard Beyreuther, based at the central airport in Berlin.
According to the worker photographer Erich Rinka, who works for this company, the owner was a regimental comrade of Hermann Göring's during the First World War.
In the course of its existence, Klinke & Co. had several addresses. Initially, Klinke & Co. was based in Berlin SW 68, Ritterstraße 25, later in Berlin W 8, Leipziger Straße 24, and after 1945 in Berlin-Tempelhof .
Products
The focus of the production of the industrial photographers Klinke & Co. was on contemporary aerial photographs, which they offered for all areas of the German Reich and, if required, also made them. The photos sold as postcards were widely used. After the competition on the market grew, the company also started taking and selling aerial photographs of individual objects such as palaces, castles, hotels and tourist restaurants. More and more, there was a transition from aerial photos to normal views of such objects, as this usually did not require a special permit from the Reich Aviation Ministry .
In the time of National Socialism and the beginning of the war preparations, all aerial photographs had to be approved by the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM), which was becoming increasingly difficult. Military facilities such as military training areas and barracks were not allowed to be photographed. The depiction of train stations or railway facilities was also undesirable and had to be largely blackened or made illegible on the photographs.
Klinke & Co. existed in Berlin-Tempelhof until the 1960s .
Meaning in the documentation
With numerous aerial photos, Klinke & Co. documented the state of many German cities and villages before the extensive war damage in the Second World War.
Web links
- Entry in the postcard lexicon
- Examples of aerial photos: here Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Collection Klinke & Co., Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of Berlin.
- ↑ Erich Rinka: Photography in the class struggle. A worker photographer remembers , Fotokinoverlag, 1981, p. 2000